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Author: Jean H. Baker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1997-06
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780393315981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a portrait of four generations of the Stevenson family in America, from the first Scotch-Irish immigrants to the life and career of the noted liberal politician Adlai Stevenson.
Author: Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Publisher: Adlai E Stevenson III
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780982371008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a political archive that spans five generations and more than 150 years, this collection of narratives, observations, wit, and wisdom, enlivens and informs on the family of former senator Adlai E. Stevenson III. This volume covers Adlai I, who served as vice president for Grover Cleveland; Adlai II, who served in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations and as governor of Illinois; Adlai III, who was an Illinois State Representative, state treasurer, senator, and two-time candidate for Illinois governor, and other family members in between. Whether it is Abraham Lincoln’s presidential campaign material—a Stevenson family member was a friend, contemporary, and promoter—after the famous seven debates or the forewarnings of the Comprehensive Anti-Terrorism Act of 1979, much of the history of the United States is presented here from personalized views of those who experienced and influenced it.
Author: Bella Bathurst
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2011-06-28
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0062094742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later. In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses under often desperate conditions but also perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that would withstand the enormous waves that batter these stone pillars. The same Stevensons also developed the lamps and lenses of the lights themselves, which "sent a gleam across the wave" and prevented countless ships from being lost at sea. While it is the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson that brought fame to the family name, this mesmerizing account shows how his extraordinary ancestors changed the shape of the Scotland coast against incredible odds and with remarkable technical ingenuity.
Author: Claire Harman
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his volatile wife and step-family, friendships and quarrels have fascinated readers for over a century. In his time he was both engineer and aesthete, dutiful son and reckless lover, Scotsman and South Sea Islander, Covenanter and atheist. Stevenson's books, including Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped, have achieved world fame; others -- The Master of Ballantrae, A Child's Garden of Verses, Travels with a Donkey -- remain all-time favourites.
Author: E. R. Seary
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780773517820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the origins of nearly 3,000 surnames found on the eastern Canadian island, along with sometimes extensive information on etymology, genealogy, and Newfoundland history. Introduces the alphabetical catalogue with a survey of the history and linguistic origins, which include English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, French, Syrian, Lebanese, and Micmac. Appends lists of names by frequency and frequency by origin, and surnames recorded before 1700. First published in 1977, reprinted four times, and here revised with additions and corrections and reset in a more convenient format. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Walter N. Vernon
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1900]
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaretta Stevenson
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily history and genealogical information about the descendants of Samuel Stevenson who was born ca. 1675 in Scotland. He left Scotland and migrated to Ireland ca. 1701. By the year 1703 Samuel immigrated to America and settled in Snow Hill (now Worcester) Somerset Co., Maryland. He was the father of three known children. Descendants lived primarily in Maryland, Kentucky and Indiana.
Author: William Richard Cutter
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 702
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